Trimming and method of making same



April 3, 192s.

A. HQL'rz TRIMMING AND METHOD 0F MAKING SAME Filed Sept. 5. 1927 IHIIIYI Il .5.,

`A TTORNE K5' Patented Apr. 3, 1928.

UNIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM HOLTZ, OF IBRONX, NEW-YORK, ASSIGNOR TO SADINOFF & WENDROFF INC.,

` OF NEW YORK, N.l A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TBIMMING .AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

A.Application led September 3, 1927. Serial No. 217,339.

This invention relates to improvements in trimmings for curtains and the like and to a method of making the same.

It has heretofore been known to knit trimmings of open-work formation and to embody therein a decorative fringe.y Prcviously, this has only been'done by attaching a plurality of threads constituting the fsmgeto one edge of the bodypof the trimming and, in order to obtain certain design effects of the fringe, such as the scalloped effect illustrated in connection with the present invention, it has been necessary to knit the edge to .which the fringe is secured of a shape or configuration which will conform to the outline of the attached edge of the fringe. i

The present invention aims to overcome certain diiiculties encountered in producing an edge on the body of the trimming to con,-

form to the desired contour of the attached edge of a fringe secured to said body. To this end, both edges of .the body of the .trimming are made straight by a `simple knltting process and the threads constituting the fringe are attached to different chain or warp threads of the body extending from one edge thereof toward the other. The fringe threads thus attached to the various chain threads will loosely depend therefrom .and cover those ortions of the latter threads which lie direct y beneath the fringe threads with the result that an ornamental fringe is provided which covers varying portions of the base fabric with other portions thereof forming part of the face of the trimming. A preferred embodiment ofthe inventive ideav involved is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein 40 Fig. 1 is a. fragmentary plan view of a trimming, partly vbroken away, showing one application of the resent method,and

illustratin group of ringe threads to one of the chain threads of the body.

The present invention is especially useful in the manufacture of trimmings for curtains, but it will .of course be understood that the method em loyed and the resultant product may be use for other purposes with equal facility without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention.

In carrying out the method, the openwork body or` foundation fabric, generally indicated by-the numeral 3 is knitted to form a plurality of rows of chain or Warp threads 4 which may or may not be connected by the filet 5, it being understood that any desired design of the body of thetrimming may be executed provided the saine number of rows of chain threads are included in the body throughout its length, or, in other words, as long as the two longitudinal edges of the body are parallel.

As the knitting of the body progresses, the fringe 6 is attached to the chain threads 4. The usual effect to be produced with a trimming ofthe character shown herein is in the nature of a scalloped design, either angular or round, but it is not to be understood that the invention is to be in any wise construed as being limited to such design. In the present instance, the attached edge of the fringe is shown in angularly scalloped form and 'in the production of said fringe a plurality of groups of threads 7 are employed which while beingyconnected to the chain threads 4 are in-looped form as indicated in dotted lines at the lower end of Fig. 1 and in full lines at the upper end of Fig. 2. Each group may consist of a. number of threads of different characteristics, such as threads of different sizes, as shown in Fig.' 2, and threads of different kinds of material such as silk, cotton, etc., or the fringe may consist of a plurality of single threads, as desired. k

In each row of warp chains, preferably knitted as indicated in Fig. 2, a group 1of vthe fringe threads 7 are looped, while the base fabric is in the act of fabrication, through adjacent chains and permitted to hang and depend from the latter. To produce the scalloped effect, any oneof the intermediate rows of warp'or chain threads l is selected and the rst group of fringe Fig. 2 1s an en arged fragmentary v1ewr the manner of attachment of a` threads, to the left of Fig. 1, is attached thereto. The succeeding group is then connected to the next lower adjacent chain thread at a point sli htly offset from the point of attachment cfg the first group. This operation is continued until the lowermost chain thread forming one of the strai ht edges of the body 3 is reached. To this atter chain thread. one or more of the groups 7 may be attached, as shown, and then the operation is continued in a reverse direction until the rst mentioned chain thread is reached, whereupon the foregoing 'operations no are repeated. The various group-xs threads now lay loosely over t e ortions of the .chain threads which lie be ow the point of attachment of each group of the former threads to the body and said groups are suliiciently `close together' to combine to` constitute a fringe which forms a covering for those portions of the chain threads lying directly elow said groups.

Finally, ythe free or lowerV ends of the loops 7 may be severedv as indicated at 8 to v complete the fringe.

vI claim: v

1. The method of making trimmings for curtains and the like which consists in forming a base warp fabric, and, in the act of fabricating said base fabric, attaching to the of fringe i fringe which covers varying portions of y said fabric 'in the longitudinal progression thereof, with other portions of said fabric forming part of the face of the trimming. v

In testimony whereof I have aixed my signature.

HQLTZ. 

